In 1954, Chrysler debuted the latest iteration of its “Forward Look” Dream Cars, the Plymouth Explorer. Designed by Luigi Segre...
During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford...
At last count there are more than 1,200 billionaires walking the Earth. This means that regardless of wealth, there aren’t nearly enough of Harry Miller’s fabulous racing machines to go around. How then does a semi-retired dump truck driver come to own two Millers? Mike Guffey loves stuff. He loves...
Bidders at the recent Mecum Dallas 2017 classic- and collector-car auction held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center honed...
1936 De Soto Airflow The story of De Soto begins with a record for first year sales that stood for...
It’s rather ironic that both the birth of the “Pony Car” movement in the mid-1960s, and its eventual death in the early 1970s, would be brought about by the “economy car.” Perhaps even more interesting, and less well known, is the fact that the first car to officially enter this...
Pete Lyons The little Speedster stared out the dealership’s window like a puppy, its big eyes pleading mournfully: Won’t you...
It’s hard to believe it is already January 2013! With the coming of the New Year comes renewed attention and...
With the HMSA having brought Historic Can-Am cars back into the spotlight with its exhibition race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach earlier this month, now the run-what-you-brung series will enjoy an afternoon on the Concours lawn. The 39th annual Concours d’Elegance of America, scheduled for July 28-30,...
Leake Auction Company will host its annual three-day spring auction at Dallas Market Hall in Dallas, Texas, next weekend, April...
Riddelle Gregory Vittorio Jano 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing its W25 Grand Prix racecars as “Silver Arrows”...
This is Fernando Hoyos’ depiction of the 1939 Plymouth raced by C. Hortal in the 2,751-mile-long Gran Premio Extraordinario between the cities of Cordoba and Buenos Aires in Argentina that year. In the background is the allegoric image of the 1925 Studebaker that Hortal had previously raced in the same...
It’s time to talk NASCAR. It usually is. NASCAR’s calendar is the longest in racing, so it has the shortest...
The 12th Annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance took place on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Southern California...
With 2009 marking the 87th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, it is the second oldest motor race in the United States after the Indianapolis 500. For the past two years the event has included a class for vintage cars—most of which have been stock cars. In 2009...
Dodge and Plymouth stylists hated them, Bill France hated them, but, the racers? Racers loved them, as long as they...
Leake Auction Company will kick off its 2018 auction season at Oklahoma City’s Bennett Event Center February 23–24 with a...
Barrett-Jackson’s 16thannual Palm Beach auction, held last weekend, April 13-15, enjoyed record attendance, record auction sales and the largest number of registered bidders for any Palm Beach auction. Three impressive collections were sold at the auction, highlighted by renowned collector and philanthropist John Staluppi’s coveted Cars of Dreams vehicles, which...
Mecum’s recent auction in Dallas, held Sept. 4-7, saw 743 cars change hands in just four action-packed days. Overall sales...
At some point in his time collecting, it occurred to Todd Werner that there was a reason the cars he...
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Kent Bain Vintage Racing Services (203) 377-1658 Jack Boxstrom RM Auctions (613) 476-9132 Lance Coren Certified Appraiser (310) 370-4114 Chris Christansen Fantasy Junction (510) 653-7555 These prices are suggested guidelines, they...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
John Greenwood Rick Mears 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at...
Mecum’s Chicago 2018 classic and collector car auction (Oct. 25–27) enjoyed an overall sales total of $17.5 million, which constituted a 38-percent increase over 2017, as 75 percent of all 896 vehicles offered hammered sold. After a flurry of excited bidding among the auction’s packed house, the Chicago auction’s headlining...
Reg Hillary, 96-years of age as of this writing, is as sharp and lively as someone half his age. He’s...
Mecum’s recent auction in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, held July 31-Aug. 3 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex, saw overall sales totals exceed $31.1 million as more than 70% of all 1,301 offered vehicles hammered sold. The solid lineup of rare and desirable collector cars helped propel Harrisburg 2019 sales to a...